Doing microbusiness in Ireland.

September 10, 2007

Social Nagging Software - stop poking me!

Another email prompting me to login to Facebook to perform some action or other at the exhortation of a friend. This time to take a Movie Compatability Test through Flixter Movies. Previously to connect people using Introductions. Before that to answer a question through Funwall. Fun wall? It would be more fun if it fell on me.

As far as I'm concerned Facebook is rapidly changing the definition of SNS from Social Networking Software to Social Nagging Software. It's not as if I don't already offer up all this kind of information on Twitter and Jaiku. But of my own free will, when I feel like it. Not when I'm notified, requested, and reminded to do so. I've enough 'todos' in my life already without my software nagging at me all the time.

By the way, it's not that I blame my friends on Facebook for all the poking - they're just using the services as guided. It's the philosophy of, and architecture decided by FB HQ that's to blame. And they need to sort it out before they burn it out.